Thin leaf asparagus ( Latin: Aspáragus tenuifólius ) is a species of herbaceous plants of the Asparagus genus ( Asparagus ) of the Asparagaceae family .
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Botanical Description
Perennial herbaceous rhizome plants, 30-100 cm tall. Straight stem ; branches are thin, smooth, deflected. Cladodias are hairy or filiform, glabrous, smooth, rounded in cross section, 0.1-0.2 mm wide and 10-25 mm long, collected in bundles of 10-40. Leaves reduced, scaly, filmy [3] [4] .
The flowers are dioecious, dioecious. Perianth is whitish with green stripes, 6-8 mm long. Stamens 6, shorter than perianth, filaments free; anthers are intrusive, rounded, 4 times shorter than stamen filaments, 0.4-0.5 mm long. Gynoecium syncarpous, ovary superior, three-rooted. The fruit is a berry , up to 10 mm in diameter [3] [4] .
Flowering in May – June [3] .
Distribution and Ecology
It occurs in Asia Minor and southern Europe [5] : from France to Russia ( Adygea , Rostov Region ) [6] ; grows in oak and juniper forests , among shrubs [4] .
Security
The species is listed in the Red Book of the Rostov Region [6] .
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of indicating the class of monocotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Monocotyledonous article .
- ↑ Asparagus tenuifolius (English) : information on the name of the taxon on The Plant List (version 1.1, 2013) (Retrieved June 5, 2013) .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Ilyin, 1935 , p. 429.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Tsvetkova, 1979 , p. 288.
- ↑ Asparagus tenuifolius (English) : information on the GRIN website. (Retrieved June 5, 2013)
- ↑ 1 2 Fedyaeva V.V. Small-leaved Asparagus - Asparagus tenuifolius Lam. // Red Book of the Rostov region: In 2 vols. / Administration of the Rostov Region. Conservation Committee. Wednesday and environment resources. - Rostov n / A : Malysh, 2004. - T. 2: Rare and endangered mushrooms, lichens and plants / Ed. ed. V.V. Fedyaev; autostat T. I. Abramova [et al.]. - 333 p. - 500 copies. - ISBN 5-8456-0023-5 .
Literature
- Ilyin M.M. Asparagus tenuifolius Lam. - Asparagus thin-leaved // Flora of the USSR : in 30 tons / hl. ed. V.L. Komarov . - L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1935. - T. 4 / ed. volumes V. L. Komarov. - S. 429. - 760, XXX p. - 5175 copies.
- Tsvetkova L.I. Asparagus tenuifolius Lam. - Asparagus thin-leaved // Flora of the European part of the USSR / Ed. ed. An. A. Fedorov . - L .: Nauka , 1979.- T. IV. Ed. volumes Yu. D. Gusev . - S. 288. - 355 p. - 3950 copies.
Links
- Thin-leaved asparagus : information on the taxon in the Plantarium project (identifier of plants and an illustrated atlas of species). (Retrieved June 3, 2013)